[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Why should they be subjected to criminal penalties?

Don't you know that anyone born So. of the Rio Grande has immunity from criminal prosecution in perpetuity?

Just imagine if Martha Stewart's name was Martha Sanchez, and she had crossed into this country illegally.

Why, that whole messy, trumped-out perjury kerfuffle could have been swept under the rug.

[Lurker]

They would have put an 'immigration hold' on her, made her promise to show up in court sometime in the next 16 months, and then they would have let her go.

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